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Denial or despair.
FREE What’s your position on climate change?

IF YOU’RE In his Oscar winning documentary on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore speaks of people
moving between denial and despair.
WITH US The better response, says Deb speaking, including Tony Juni-
Joffe of the Swindon Climate Ac- per, executive director of
If you advertise in The Link tion Network (SCAN), is to take Friends of the Earth, author of
action to reduce waste in any way How many light bulbs does it take
your business is listed
possible, no matter how small. “It to change the planet.
free of charge at helps to do something rather than A panel discussion at the
swindonlink.com give up before trying.” event will look at what ordi-
SCAN is helping to organise the nary people can do to reduce
To promote yourself in Swindon’s Climate Change Day at the Swin- damage to the climate - see story
most closely read publication, don Festival of Literature on Sun- below.
call Nicola Norridge on 602540 day 13 May. Some big hitters in the Bikes or gas guzzlers? Tough choices
environmental movement will be for all say Adrian Read and Deb Joffe
of SCAN
Is a community climate
Purton House Reduce your campaign group up your street?
Church End carbon footprint. SCAN member Adrian Read thinks the future of the Swindon cli-
Purton, Swindon Buy healthy food mate change campaign lies in smaller neighbourhood groups.
grown locally He thinks because SCAN mem- mate friendly at a community level.
Tel: 01793 772287
bership has grown so quickly that To find out more beforehand
monthly meetings necessarily in- contact Liz Nimmo-Scott on 01380
VEGETABLES • FRUIT • MEAT • EGGS
clude a lot of administrative mat- 725670 or mail: lizns@
ters. Smaller community groups wiltshirewildlife.org
Real food from a farm near you will allow the focus to return to www.swindonfestivalofliterature.co.uk
taking action to save energy, re-
Call for details about our duce waste and move away from New bags for old
Organic Box Scheme dependence on cars.
Purton will be the first area to Superstore chain launches
Deliveries & drop off points in Swindon, Cirencester, become a Climate Friendly Com- practical action
Wootton Bassett, Broad Hinton, Marlborough, Wroughton munity in association with Wilt- By 2010 Asda will stop sending
www.purton-house.co.uk shire Wildlife Trust. Under the ini- any waste to landfill. All rubbish
tiative, towns and villages are en- at the back of its stores will be
couraged to adopt greener life- recycled, reused or composted.
styles and will receive bronze, sil- Out front they’re planning to
ver and gold awards in recogni- slash plastic bag use. All cus-
tion of their efforts. tomers who bring back five old
“Being climate friendly and cut- carrier bags for recycling will
ting our carbon emissions needn’t be given a free ‘bag for life.’
be a chore or a bore - becoming a These normally cost 5p each
greener community is good fun,” with 1p going to charity.
said WWT project officer Liz Resist taking a new plastic
Nimmo-Scott. bag and you will be giving a
Following the Climate Change special green voucher which
Day on 13 May SCAN plan to or- can be cashed in by a school of
ganise a meeting in West and/or your choice for vegetable gar-
North Swindon to look at setting den packs, recycled stationery
up a local group to discuss practi- or even an educational wind tur-
cal ways of becoming more cli- bine
Get recycling. The wheelie bins are
rolling out across Swindon in September
Following the success of trials in West Swindon, weekly recycling
collections across the whole borough will begin on 23 July to be
followed in September by the launch of fortnightly wheelie bin
collections.
Helen Sanderson, Wastes Com- jars , tins and cans, aluminium foil
munications Officer, said the two and clothing.
dates will give people time to get In July the council will also be
ready for fortnightly collections by setting up a separate fortnightly
separating recyclables from gen- plastic bottle collection system.
eral waste. “Our consultations over The council needs to reduce
the summer showed that it’s some- waste to meet strict Government
thing people want. Every house targets for sending rubbish to
will get an additional recycling box landfill.
and they can buy more; there’ll be Most houses will be given a
no limit.” wheelie bin. Where this is not a
Each household will have a mini- practical option an alternative will
mum of two boxes for recyclables be provided. Read more at:
- paper and card, glass bottles and www.swindon.gov.uk/waste

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